УДК377.3:37.091.212.3 Creative dimension of students potential in vocational education institutions

Abstract

The article examines the creative dimension of students potential in vocational education institutions that can be revealed in the learning process. Based on the analysis of scientific literature, the main approaches and concepts of the identification and development of personality’s abilities and talents are highlighted. The conditions for the transformation of creativity into ability and talent are also substantiated. It is established that in order to develop the abilities and talents, it is necessary for teachers to pay attention at the same time to a set of conditions, in particular, to internal factors and connections in the structure of personality and to external conditions. Each student has an individual boundary, the transition of which contributes to the development of his abilities and talents. Creative abilities integrate important for professional activity psychological properties, which are expressed through a multiplicity of potentials. Gardner's Multiple Intellect Technique was used to determine the students potential in vocational education institutions. The study was conducted on two samples of students who respectively acquired a technical and artistic working profession. It is revealed that among the students who receive art profession, there are more gifted children in almost all kinds of giftedness. They are also more focused on levels for which giftedness differs in the complexity of abstract thinking. It is concluded that the curriculum of students who acquire technical skills should be saturated with information related to the profile-related abilities. Teachers’ professional skill is that it is expedient to distribute this information in students' extra-curricular work. Particular attention is paid to the internal changes in the personality of students. The results obtained are important for improving the quality of vocational education and the personal development of future workers, for whom they need to know their capabilities and reserves.